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The Framework For World History has some Plasticity

On this website I am presenting a framework for world history and the age of the Earth. Some of what I am presenting has been known in some quarters of the church for many years through the original work of Pastor Offiler, of Bethel Temple, Seattle, who was inspired by the Holy Spirit in the early 1900’s. However, I bring you boldly more material where others fear to tread. If you have not been aware of this material before then praise the Lord for the Holy Spirit making you aware of it now. Please continue patiently to wade through my material. The Lord will reward you. Nothing that is worthwhile can be achieved without effort. Picking up alluvial gold is child’s play, but mining reef-gold is expensive and time-consuming. Within our general framework for the time-line of world history we need to be aware that the sovereign Lord can somewhat delay or shorten time as He pleases. Therefore, it would be foolishness for anyone to predict exact times. Nevertheless, as was the case
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Mutations and Genetic Disorders

  Creation Ministries International  asks  -  'How could mutations - accidental copying mistakes (DNA 'letters' exchanged, deleted or added, genes duplicated, chromosome inversions, etc.) - create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things? ​ How could such errors create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? There is information for how to make proteins and also for controlling their use - much like a cookbook contains the ingredients as well as the instructions for how and when to use them. One without the other is useless. Mutations are known for their destructive effects including over 1,000 human diseases such as haemophilia. Rarely are they even helpful. But how can scrambling existing DNA information create a new biochemical pathway or nano-machines with many components, to make 'goo-to-you' evolution possible? E.g. how did a 32-component rotary motor like  ATP synthase   (which produces the energy
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Jesus was clearly implying that the story of Jonah was literally true

A spiritual adulterer is one who brings a worldly mindset into the church to wrestle with the scriptures, deceitfully enticing men and women away from the faith. Jesus appealed to the book of Jonah which the world ridicules as being a story too fantastic to be true. The only sign given to a worldly person will be the sign of the prophet Jonah who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a whale - Jesus was talking about Himself and His three days in the grave before the resurrection.   Jesus was clearly implying that the story of Jonah was literally true. Jesus also referred to Noah when the whole world was swept away by the Flood, and that it will happen again - only this time by fire not by water, according to the apostle Peter. Did Jesus ever question the Old Testament scriptures? Did He ever say, ''Oh, by the way - Moses and other writers got a few things wrong. I have come to correct the scriptures because, in their zeal, the prophets dumbed it down and simpli
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NATURAL SELECTION: THE ONLY THING DARWIN GOT RIGHT

Our chemistry lecturer announced his dismay that the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to Melvin Calvin for discovering the C3 cycle in plants, the distinctive biochemical pathway by which carbon dioxide from air is converted to sugars in broad-leaved plants. In his opinion, it should have been awarded to Andrew Benson and James Bassham who, at the very least, should have shared the prize. Yet, the C3-cycle for photosynthesis has always been associated with Calvin and not Benson nor Bassham. Similarly, the fame for the ‘ Origin of Species ’ by natural selection should be shared with Russel Wallace yet the theory is always associated with Charles Darwin. ​ Both Wallace and Darwin were meticulous naturalists documenting everything they observed on their travels and collecting numerous specimens for later study. While Darwin travelled around the Americas and the Galapagos Wallace spent his time in the Amazon basin and on the numerous islands of the Malay Archipelago. Both men ma
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God's Pattern Revealed in Passover

  We discussed the institution of the first Passover in Egypt which slew the first-born son and beast belonging to every household which was not covered by the blood of a lamb. Pharaoh lost his first-born son, heir to his throne. Passover was the first of the Lord's three Feasts each of which reflected an aspect of their flight from Egypt to entry into the Promised Land - Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. In this article we are primarily interested in God's timing of the Passover Feast. God was so particular about its' timing that He found it necessary to institute a new calendar, which was exactly out of phase with the previous civic calendar, ​ ‘ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a ho
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